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An edition of the Torah (in two volumes) with several versions of Aramaic Targum and the commentary of Rashi (Venice, 1590 [ש"ן]). This is the first printed edition of "western" Targums from the Land of Israel: Targum Pseudo-Jonathan ("Yonatan") and the fragment Targum ("Yerushalmi"). A third volume (dated 1591 [שנ"א]) provides the Five Megillot with their Targums, haftarot (some with Targum), and an index of talmudic references to biblical verses entitled Toledot Aharon.
For the only surviving manuscript of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (British Library Add. Ms. 27031), see here. This edition was transcribed from another manuscript, and is thus an independent textual witness.
Contents:
- Song of Songs
- Ruth
- Lamentations
- Ecclesiastes
- Esther (with Targum Sheni)
- List of holiday Torah readings
- Haftarot for the whole year—“with the Targum of the haftarot for holidays, which in a few communities there is a custom” to translate each verse: Targum is included for the haftarot of Passover and Shavu`ot.
- Toledot Aharon, an index of citations of biblical verses in the Talmud by Aaron of Pisaro, Italy (c. 1490-1563). Toledot Aharon was first published 8 years earlier in Freiburg, Germany in 1583 [שמ"ג]; here it is reprinted with expansions that include citations of biblical verses (from the Torah and five megillot) in the Zohar and other works. The current edition, in which Toledot Aharon appears as an appendix to the Torah and Five Megillot, became a model for the future: Subsequently, in a great many editions of the Torah with commentaries, Toledot Aharon was reprinted numerous times and eventually became ubiquitous within printed ḥumashim. Note that the same Venice publisher further expanded Toledot Aharon in a parallel edition to include citations of verses from the entire Hebrew Bible (here).
The previous upload is a scan of a copy held by the National Library of Israel (NLI). The NLI (catalogue item) provides an additional scan of Genesis through Leviticus (here), plus a full scan of the third volume (here). That scan of the third volume has been added in this item to the previous scan of the first two volumes, providing a full scan of the complete set.
Technical note: Page 625 (the first page of the scan of Volume Two) has been duplicated on purpose, so that subsequent pages appear correctly to the right or to the left.
Terms of Use (National Library of Israel): Public Domain
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